yeah i did the pre-order as well.. came to $19+ shipped, but worth it i think..

also, anyone else get a nice surprise in the mail yesterday? got my first issue of 'Deep' magazine - new format of the Ten Club newsletter. very cool.

I got mine last week. I'm very happy with it. I really like the new direction of it and hope they keep it up.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/6633681...7594082115183/

Damn I haven't gotten my issue of Deep yet. I think it's funny the X-mas single keeps coming later every year This X-mas single was more like a Spring Single.

I'm pretty sure 10C tickets for the last full tour were around $45-$50 per ticket. I saw them in West Palm and Tampa last tour (2003) and both times I paid over $100 for 2 seats. There is a 2nd leg rumor on the PJ boards and they have a Raleigh, NC date for August 12th so I'm keeping my fingers crossed on that.

I've got a pretty decent 10C number 198,XXX so I generally get pretty good seats.

they just announced 3 more tentative shows. Another Boston, Camden, and East Rutherford. Full details:
www.pearljam.com

Not exactly sure how the preorder stuff will work for tenclub, but picked up some Boston night 2, to go with night 1 show. Should be a decent few days, have red sox vs yanks on tues, pj weds and thurs. I hope they add a friday show.

got right in for all 3 'possible' shows yesterday.. that's 7.. 8 if i end up getting the 3rd ERNJ show..

Doubt I'll get to see them down here in redneck country, but I'm feeling these first two songs.

The lyrics for World Wide Suicide are a bit hard to make out, but I can't see anybody being too offput by them...though those types sure are easily offended and I'm sure we'll see an anti-Pearl Jam crusade if it gets any spin.

I think I might like Unemployable a bit more. Eddie seems more effective to me when he relates to individuals rather than trying to elaborate on broad issues. Plus it's got a type of hook that they haven't done before. It's nice to hear something different from them.

Pre-Ordered from fanclub as well. Actually looking forward to this one.

First 6 tracks leaked yesterday...

Just got tickets to the Boston show. Can't wait.

The leaked tracks are rumored to not be final mixes. And 3 of the four that we havn't heard before were in mono. Don't know if it's cool to list the song titles, but the newly leaked tracks are Life Wasted, Comatose, Severed Hand (only one not in mono) and parachutes. Add those to Worldwide Suicide, Unemployable, and the Gone demo from the fan club and we've heard about 7 of the songs.

Ok, They're really not happy about the leaked songs. Here's a message from Ed:
http://www.theskyiscrape.com/index.php

Got tickets for the May 17th Chi show! Def excited! Tickets were 51 and an 8 dollar fee. Kinda steep, at least to me, seeing how I paid 35 for Foo Fighters/Weezer at U of I...but then again that's college discount stuff. Mehmeh, I'm def VERY excited for PJ though! YEAH.

That's a poor Ed impression.

Sounds like Ed to me...

Turns out it was an early April Fools joke.

See link:
http://www.theskyiscrape.com/index.php

the great news: pearl jam will perform on snl on april 15.
the bad news: the host is Lindsay Lohan

Damn. Tell me you got us decent seats.

They better play "rearviewmirror". That's all I'm sayin'.

K

Won't know what seats we got until we pick them up at the show. It's all by seniority though and I've been a fan club member since 97. We should be in the first 15-20 rows.

I've started a Pearl Jam Tour Discussion Thread, so can we get this one back on track about the album?

Thanks.

I can't speak on the album, I refuse to listen to the leaks.

However, I do enjoy WWS, and Unemployable very much.

The gone version played in AC, was just ok to me though.

So we shall see.

Personally I find Riot Act considerably uneven. I don't particularly care for the majority of the second half that much at all. But there are some real gems on there. I do hope the new album is at least better than that one, if only for the chance to make a new Pearl Jam compilation. Volume 3 awaits.

K

So far I like the new album more than Binaural and Riot Act. That's just after hearing WWS and Unemployable as well as the leaked versions of Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Comatose (love this song) and Parachutes (love this one too) and the demo of Gone from the fan club single.

I like Binaural a lot more than Riot Act. I haven't listened to anything but WWS/UE from this one, but it's sounding a lot better.